Wellness Walk, Run could draw hundreds

Published 3:37 pm, Thursday, April 5, 2012

Participants line up for the start of last year’s Wayland Wellness Walk & Run. This year’s event is Saturday, and more than 200 participants have registered.

Participants line up for the start of last year’s Wayland Wellness Walk & Run. This year’s event is Saturday, and more than 200 participants have registered.

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Wellness Walk, Run could draw hundreds

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Runners from across the state and region will converge on Plainview on Saturday for the second annual Wayland Wellness Walk & Run.

The event will feature a one-mile walk, 5K, 10K and half-marathon.

Event organizer Ron Appling said he expected around 150 participants, but more than 200 already have signed up. He anticipates many race-day registrants as well.

“We have more than 200 people registered and they’re coming from all over the local region as well as the Dallas, Houston and San Antonio areas, New Mexico and Oklahoma,” Appling said. “We’re really going to make Plainview history. There has never been a 10K or half-marathon here, and it’s exciting to have so many people participating.”

The race will kick off at J.V. Hilliard Field (aka the Wayland Bowl) at Eighth and Xenia with registration and packet pick-up from 7:30-8:30 a.m.

The half-marathon will begin at 9 a.m., followed by the 1-mile walk at 9:15.

The 5K and 10K runners will hit the course at 10 a.m.

The half-marathon is a 13.1-mile trek that begins at Hilliard Field and winds through Plainview — going as far northwest as the Westgate neighborhood. It will be open for four hours.

The 5K is approximately 3.1 miles, and the 10K is 6.2 miles. Those events will take runners through the Wayland campus and neighborhoods north of the Wayland campus.

The top three males and females in each event will win prizes, along with the top male and female participants in each age division. All half-marathon finishers will receive a medal.

Half-marathon registration is not available on race day, but 1-mile walk, 5K and 10K participants may sign up the morning of the race.